En route to Fortaleza, Brazil - At sea- Day 2
25 November 2007- Sunday
2nd of 4 days at sea en route to Fortaleza, Brazil
Another day at sea and the battle of the deck chairs rages. A large gentleman threatened to to throw a passenger overboard for taking his chair. There may be a lawsuit brewing as "threatening" is an offense under some country's law. The way things work is that about 7 or 8 am a bunch of people hit the deck and put books and towels on a bunch of chairs than indicate that they are occupied then go off for breakfast lunch etc and claim the chair for the whole day. The published rules are that if the chair is not physically occupied for 20 minutes the stuff can be removed but no one enforces it. (It's like the wheelchair lady who took her wheelchair ashore in Madagascar last year- when the tour specifically stated "not wheelchair accessible.") Most of the violators are German! Stumbled across a one hour program on the Fox channel about the battle of Britain- and reminded me that I has brought the DVD of the movie along in case I got bored. Worked out great because Carlos was lecturing again and decided to spend the afternoon watching the movie instead- great flick! So carrying my HP entertainment notebook pc pays off. Had lunch with Bill and Rosemary came over when a guy who had given a lecture in the Charleston room yesterday came by with an autographed book for Rosemary- for $25. He turns out to be the CEO of Embassy Suites who had to sit on a jury trying a rape case when he came up with the idea of a book on violence against women (actually how women can avoid this problem). Of course, Bill mentioned that we had discussed my writing a book yesterday and as it happens John is scheduled to give a lecture on "how to write a book" on Tuesday. what a coincidence. Tonight is a "polo club" reception where pins are given out for cruising with the Marco Polo - one guy got a crystal globe for 25 cruises and they gave out about 6 ruby pins for 10 cruises- I just remembered I made sapphire last year on my 3rd cruise but they never mailed me my pin. Ran into Ellen on deck (a federal prosecuting attorney who is the replacement for Ann from Australia) and she announced she was invited to the Captain's table for late dinner- we sit next to the Captain's table at early dinner so I wrote her a note on her place card. Had dinner at 6 with nice menu of steak, lobster bisque, etc and then free drinks from 745- 830pm and then Tufty, the multiple instrumentalist who played the clarinet, saxophone (large and small) and the flute. Not a bad performance and with all the drink was asleep by 10pm.
2nd of 4 days at sea en route to Fortaleza, Brazil
Another day at sea and the battle of the deck chairs rages. A large gentleman threatened to to throw a passenger overboard for taking his chair. There may be a lawsuit brewing as "threatening" is an offense under some country's law. The way things work is that about 7 or 8 am a bunch of people hit the deck and put books and towels on a bunch of chairs than indicate that they are occupied then go off for breakfast lunch etc and claim the chair for the whole day. The published rules are that if the chair is not physically occupied for 20 minutes the stuff can be removed but no one enforces it. (It's like the wheelchair lady who took her wheelchair ashore in Madagascar last year- when the tour specifically stated "not wheelchair accessible.") Most of the violators are German! Stumbled across a one hour program on the Fox channel about the battle of Britain- and reminded me that I has brought the DVD of the movie along in case I got bored. Worked out great because Carlos was lecturing again and decided to spend the afternoon watching the movie instead- great flick! So carrying my HP entertainment notebook pc pays off. Had lunch with Bill and Rosemary came over when a guy who had given a lecture in the Charleston room yesterday came by with an autographed book for Rosemary- for $25. He turns out to be the CEO of Embassy Suites who had to sit on a jury trying a rape case when he came up with the idea of a book on violence against women (actually how women can avoid this problem). Of course, Bill mentioned that we had discussed my writing a book yesterday and as it happens John is scheduled to give a lecture on "how to write a book" on Tuesday. what a coincidence. Tonight is a "polo club" reception where pins are given out for cruising with the Marco Polo - one guy got a crystal globe for 25 cruises and they gave out about 6 ruby pins for 10 cruises- I just remembered I made sapphire last year on my 3rd cruise but they never mailed me my pin. Ran into Ellen on deck (a federal prosecuting attorney who is the replacement for Ann from Australia) and she announced she was invited to the Captain's table for late dinner- we sit next to the Captain's table at early dinner so I wrote her a note on her place card. Had dinner at 6 with nice menu of steak, lobster bisque, etc and then free drinks from 745- 830pm and then Tufty, the multiple instrumentalist who played the clarinet, saxophone (large and small) and the flute. Not a bad performance and with all the drink was asleep by 10pm.
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posted by DT at 8:37 AM
1 Comments:
Europeans, and especially Germans, are imfamous for doing the deck chair trick at various venues. Maybe if you pee on one of the chairs before they can throw their towel on it they'll leave it alone for you.
Good luck with the book writing by the way.
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